Adam Newman was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee in 1984 and currently resides in Acampo, California. He is a figurative painter, sculptor, and installation artist. Newman’s art can be recognized by his intense earthy color palette used in pastel paintings, sculptures made of found objects & recycled material, and immersive installations constructed using the sculptures, natural elements, and painted walls.
Newman’s artistic identity centers on the objective of highlighting the absurdity of human-made reality by examining man-made objects and sociological constructs. The work offers an omniscient perspective referred to as “God view” by the artist, creating a hypothetical point of view in which we could see humanity through the eyes of God; each painting to be viewed as one point in the vast universe being observed. His pieces lead you to question all origins, materials, purposes, and consequences of the human experience. The artist exhibits a proclivity for recurring motifs in his creations he labels as: others, obstructions, false fronts, and hand-mades, imbuing his pieces with a sense of symbolic depth and allegorical richness. In an earlier autobiographical period, he developed many of the skills and ideas that are prominent in his work today by drawing from his subconscious resulting in varying degrees of two dimensional realism that produced bodies of work such as “The American Realist” and “EXPOSED”. After exhausting this process Newman moved on to more relevant and engaging content in which he hopes to encourage social and economic change by presenting his audience with what he finds unreconcilable in our present reality.
Adam Newman’s work has exhibited at venues such as The Emporium in Knoxville, Tennessee; Where Ya Art Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana; and Studio Gallery in San Francisco, California. Newman has also designed and executed large scale mural projects across the southeastern United States in Nashville, Knoxville, and New Orleans.